$500+ savings with the Eurail AT-DE pass (2018)
Above/featured: Ehrwald station in Austria. 2014 photo by Kulmalukko (CC BY-SA 4.0).
I’m tuned to keeping alive a long-standing streak.
I’m in Germany for the 18th consecutive year this May. But, back “home” bookends the bulk of my time in Austria with key visits to Innsbruck, Salzburg, and Vienna.
I’ve purchased a 2nd-class Eurail Austria-Germany Pass (adult) with ten non-consecutive days of travel inside an interval of two months. With my preference for open-ended travel over advanced purchase of individual point-to-point tickets, I will save over 500 dollars. Here I describe:
- how flexibility with a rail pass provides significant savings, and
- how I validate and activate the rail pass when I arrive in Europe.